Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Abdirascid, Ali Scermarke, Prime Minister of Somalia until June 1964; President from June 1967
  • Abdirazak, Hagi Hussein, Prime Minister of Somalia until July 1964; again, September 1964–June 1967
  • Abidia, Fathi, Libyan Ambassador to the United States
  • Adams, General Paul D., Commander in Chief, Strike Command, until November 1966; concurrently Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara, November 1963–November 1966
  • Aden, Abdullah Osman, President of Somalia until June 1967
  • Adoula, Cyrille, Prime Minister of the Congo until July 1964; Ambassador to the United States from January 1967
  • Aklilu, Abte-Wold Tsahafi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
  • Anderson, George W., Jr., Ambassador to Portugal until June 1966
  • Ankrah, Lieutenant General Joseph A., Chairman, National Liberation Council of Ghana, from February 1966
  • Attwood, William, Ambassador to Kenya, March 1964–May 1966
  • Azikiwe, Nnamdi, President of Nigeria from 1963
  • al-Badri, Abd-al-Qadir, Prime Minister of Libya, July-October 1967
  • Bakkush, Abd al-Hamid, Prime Minister of Libya and Minister of Justice, October 1967–September 1968
  • Balafrej, Haj Ahmed, Personal Representative of the King of Morocco with rank of Minister
  • Balewa, Sir Abubakar, Prime Minister of Nigeria and Minister of External Affairs, from 1965 until assassinated in January 1966
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State until September 1966; Representative to the United Nations, June-September 1968
  • Banda, Hastings K., President of Malawi from July 1966
  • Barr, Joseph W., Under Secretary of the Treasury until December 1968; thereafter Secretary
  • Belk, Samuel E., member, National Security Council Staff, until 1965
  • Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development until June 1966
  • Ben Barka, Mehdi, Moroccan leader of the leftist opposition party abducted in Paris in October 1965 while living in exile
  • Ben Bella, Ahmed, President and Prime Minister of Algeria until June 1965; concurrently Minister of the Interior, December 1964–June 1965; overthrown by a military coup and imprisoned in June 1965
  • Ben Salah, Ahmed, Tunisian Secretary of State for the Plan and National Economy from 1964
  • Bengelloun, Ali, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States until November 1965
  • Benhima, Ahmed Taibi, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1964–1966; Director, Cabinet of the King, 1966–1967
  • Benhima, Mohammed, Prime Minister of Morocco from July 1967
  • Bennett, W. Tapley, Jr., Ambassador to Portugal from July 1966
  • Bishti, Ahmad, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1965–1968
  • Blake, James J., Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965; thereafter Director
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France until February 1968; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Boumediene, Col. Houari, Algerian Vice Premier of the Ministerial Council and Minister of Defense until June 1965; Head of the Revolutionary Council, June-July 1965; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
  • Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisi
  • Bourguiba, Habib, Jr., Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from November 1964
  • Bouteflicka, Abdelaziz, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1965
  • Brown, George, British Foreign Secretary, March 1967–April 1968
  • Brown, L. Dean, Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, September 1965–July 1966; Country Director for Central Africa, July 1966–November 1967; thereafter Ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia
  • Brubeck, William H., member, National Security Council Staff, until November 1964
  • Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to Great Britain
  • Buffum, William B., Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, September 1965–December 1966; thereafter Deputy Representative to the United Nations
  • Bunche, Ralph J., UN Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs until 1967; thereafter Under Secretary-General
  • Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February 1966; Executive Secretary of the Special Committee of the National Security Council, June-August 1967
  • Chase, Gordon, member, National Security Council Staff, until January 1966
  • Cherkaoui, Mohammed, Moroccan Minister of National Economy and Finance, 1964–1965; Minister of Development, 1965–February 1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, February 1966–1967; Minister of National Defense from 1967
  • Clark, G. Edward, Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, October 1965–July 1966; Country Director for South Africa, July 1966–September 1968; thereafter Ambassador to Mali
  • Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September 1965
  • Conway, General Theodore J., Commander in Chief, Strike Command, from November 1966
  • Davignon, Viscount Etienne, Chef de Cabinet, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States from June 1965
  • Dodd, Thomas J., Democratic Senator from Connecticut
  • Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, British Prime Minister until October 1964
  • Driss, Rachid, Tunisian Ambassador to the United States from May 1964
  • Egal, Mohammed Ibrahim, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia from June 1967
  • Fekini, Mohieddine, Prime Minister of Libya until January 1964
  • Feld, Nicholas, Deputy Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, March-October 1965; Director, Office of East African Affairs, from June 1967
  • Ferguson, John H., Ambassador to Morocco until November 1964
  • Forrestal, Michael V., member, National Security Council Staff, until April 1964
  • Fowler, Henry H., Secretary of the Treasury, April 1965–December 1968
  • Fredericks, J. Wayne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until September 1967
  • Galanto, Fred J., Officer in Charge of Somali Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until July 1964; Officer in Charge of Ethiopian Affairs, July 1964–May 1966
  • Garin, Vasco Vieira, Portuguese Ambassador to the United States
  • Gaud, William S., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development, February 1964–August 1966; thereafter Administrator
  • Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations, July 1965–June 1968
  • Gowan, Major General Yakubu, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria from July 1966
  • Guedira, Ahmed Reda, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs until August 1964
  • Guellal, Cherif, Algerian Ambassador to the United States until February 1967
  • Gullion, Edmund A., Ambassador to Zaire until February 1964
  • Hadsel, Fred L., Director, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from March 1964
  • Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Hall, William O., Ambassador to Ethiopia from October 1967
  • Hamilton, Edward, member, National Security Council Staff, October 1965–December 1968
  • Harmel, Pierre, Belgian Prime Minister, July 1965–1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1966–December 1968
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large
  • Hassan II, King of Morocco
  • Haynes, Ulric, member, National Security Council Staff, 1965–1966
  • Helms, Richard, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, 1964–1966; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, April 1965–June 1966; thereafter Director
  • Hooper, Peter, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, May 1964–September 1965; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in South Africa
  • Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965–1968
  • Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States
  • Idris Al-Sanusi, Muhammad, King of Libya
  • Ironsi, Major General Johnson Aguiyi, Head of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria, January 1966–July 1966
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until July 1965; Ambassador to Algeria, October 1965–June 1967, when Algeria severed diplomatic relations with the United States
  • Jessup, Peter, member, National Security Council Staff
  • Johnson, Charles E., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until July 1964; Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964–September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1965–October 1966
  • Jonathan, Chief Leabua, Prime Minister of Lesotho
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Special Ambassador for Libyan base discussions, June 1964
  • Judd, Thomas M., Officer in Charge of United Kingdom Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1967
  • Kaiser, Philip M., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in the United Kingdom from July 1964
  • Kapwepwe, Simon Mwansa, Zambian Foreign Minister, January 1965–December 1967; thereafter Vice President
  • Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Deputy Attorney General until February 1965; Attorney General, February 1965–October 1966; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Kaunda, Kenneth D., President of Zambia
  • Kayibanda, Gregoire, President and Prime Minister of Rwanda
  • Keita, Modibo, President of Mali
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General of the United States until 1964; Democratic Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in June 1968
  • Kenyatta, Jomo, President of Kenya; Chairman of the Organization of African Unity Ad Hoc Commission on the Congo
  • Kitchen, Jeffrey C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs until February 1967
  • Knight, Ridgway B., Ambassador to Belgium from June 1965
  • Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1966–December 1967
  • Komer, Robert W., member, National Security Council Staff, until September 1965; Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, September 1965–March 1966; Special Assistant to the President, March 1966–May 1967
  • Korry, Edward M., Ambassador to Ethiopia until September 1967
  • Lang, William E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Laraki, Ahmed, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States, January 1966–March 1967; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Leddy, John M., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development until June 1965; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Lefevre, Theodore, Belgian Prime Minister until June 1965
  • LeMay, General Curtis E., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until January 1965
  • Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Commander in Chief, European Command
  • Leonhart, William, Ambassador to Tanzania until December 1965
  • Lightner, E. Allen, Jr., Ambassador to Libya until June 1965
  • Looram, Matthew J., Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, April 1964–September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, October 1965–May 1966; thereafter Country Director, Office of Northeast African Affairs
  • MacArthur, Douglas II, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 1965–March 1967; thereafter Special Adviser to the Secretary of State
  • MacKnight, Jesse M., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until November 1965
  • Mahoney, William P., Jr., Ambassador to Ghana until May 1965
  • Mann, Thomas C., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1965–May 1966
  • Marks, Leonard H., Director, United States Information Agency, September 1965–December 1968
  • Martins, N. Ade, Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, September 1965–December 1967
  • Mathews, Elbert G., Ambassador to Nigeria from April 1964
  • Maziq, Husayn Yusuf, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, January 1964–March 1965; Prime Minister, March 1965–June 1967
  • McBride, Robert H., Ambassador to Zaire from June 1967
  • McClelland, Roswell D., Consul General in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, September 1964–February 1966
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 1965
  • McElhiney, Thomas W., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, October 1965–July 1966; Country Director for Southeast Africa, July 1966–August 1968; thereafter Ambassador to Ghana
  • McIlvaine, Robinson, Country Director for Northwestern Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, July-September 1966; thereafter Ambassador to Guinea
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense until February 1968
  • McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1964–July 1967
  • Melbourne, Roy M., Country Director for West Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1966
  • Mobutu, Lieutenant General Joseph D., President of the Republic of the Congo and Minister of Defense from November 1965
  • Mondlane, Eduardo, President of FRELIMO, the Mozambican nationalist movement
  • Morris, Roger P., member, National Security Council Staff, from October 1967
  • Moyers, Bill, Special Assistant to the President, 1964–1967; Chief of Staff in the White House, October 1964–January 1967; White House Press Secretary, July 1965–January 1967
  • Muller, Hilgard, South African Foreign Minister
  • Muntasir, Mahmud, Prime Minister of Libya, 1964–1965; thereafter Chief of the Royal Household
  • Naude, Willem C., South African Ambassador to the United States until January 1965
  • Newsom, David D., Deputy Director, Office of North African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until June 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Libya
  • Nitze, Paul R., Secretary of the Navy until June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967–January 1969
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana until February 1966
  • Nogueira, Franco, Foreign Minister of Portugal
  • Nujoma, Sam, President of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
  • Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanganyika until country renamed in October 1964; thereafter President of Tanzania
  • Obote, A. Milton, Prime Minister of Uganda
  • Ojukwu, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria from January 1966
  • Osman, Ahmed, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States from April 1967
  • O’Sullivan, James L., Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, April 1964–August 1965
  • Oufkir, General Mohammed, Moroccan Minister of the Interior from 1964 until August 1965; sentenced to life in prison in absentia over the Ben Barka affair in Paris in 1967
  • Palmer, Joseph II, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from August 1964
  • Popper, David H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965
  • Porter, William J., Ambassador to Algeria until July 1965
  • al-Qadhafi, Wanis, Prime Minister of Libya from September 1968
  • Quimby, Thomas H.E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from January 1968
  • Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department until February 1969
  • Roberto, Holden, Angolan nationalist leader, President of GRAE, and leader of FNLA and UPA
  • Root, John F., Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, December 1965–June 1967; thereafter Country Director for Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Spanish Sahara, and Tunisia
  • Rostow, Eugene V., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from October 1966
  • Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council until March 1966; thereafter Special Assistant to the President
  • Rountree, William M., Ambassador to South Africa from January 1966
  • Rowan, Carl T., Director, United States Information Agency, February 1964–July 1965
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
  • Russell, Francis H., Ambassador to Tunisia
  • Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, Prime Minister of Portugal
  • Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Ambassador to South Africa until November 1965
  • Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the Angolan national liberation movement UNITA
  • Schaufele, William E., Jr., Officer in Charge of Congo Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, June 1964–September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, October 1965–May 1966; thereafter Country Director for West Central Africa
  • Scheyven, Louis, Belgian Ambassador to the United States
  • Schultze, Charles L., Director, Bureau of the Budget
  • Senghor, Leopold Sedar, President of Senegal
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965
  • Slim, Mongi, Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until 1964; thereafter, personal representative of President Bourguiba
  • Slim, Taieb, Tunisian Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Sloan, Frank K., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until 1965
  • Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Smith, Ian Douglas, Prime Minister of Rhodesia from April 1964
  • Smith, Robert P., Officer in Charge of Ghanaian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, August 1965–July 1966; thereafter Officer in Charge of Nigerian Affairs
  • Spaak, Paul-Henri, Belgian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1965; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Coordination of External Policy, 1965–1966
  • Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until his death in July 1965
  • Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, September 1965–July 1968
  • Stoltzfus, William A., Jr., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965
  • Strong, Curtis C., United Nations Adviser, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until October 1964; Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, November 1964–October 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, October 1965–July 1966; Country Director for East African Affairs, July 1966–June 1967
  • Tasca, Henry J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until May 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Morocco
  • Taswell, Harold L.T., South African Ambassador to the United States from February 1965
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1964; Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964–July 1965
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large until December 1966
  • Thurston, Raymond L., Ambassador to Somalia, November 1965–December 1968
  • Torbert, Horace G., Ambassador to Somalia until August 1965
  • Toure, Sekou, President of Guinea
  • Trimble, William C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, July 1965–December 1967
  • Tron, Rene A., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, July 1965–1967
  • Trueheart, William C., Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from July 1967
  • Tshombe, Moise, Prime Minister of the Congo, July 1964–October 1965
  • Tyler, William R., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1965
  • Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 1964–June 1967
  • Verwoerd, Henrik F., Prime Minister of South Africa until his assassination in September 1966
  • Vorster, B.J., Prime Minister of South Africa from September 1966
  • Webb, James E., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Westerfield, Samuel Z., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 1967
  • Wheeler, General Earle G., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until July 1964; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Williams, Franklin H., Ambassador to Ghana from January 1966 until May 1968
  • Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until March 1966
  • Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister from October 1964
  • Woods, George D., President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) until April 1968
  • Yifru, Ketema, Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs